Check your chicken, ham salads in listeria recall health hazard

Garden Fresh Foods has recalled more than 125,000 pounds of ready-to-eat salads, coleslaws and dips because the ham and chicken inside might be contaminated with listeria. The list is long.

The Milwaukee, Wis., company first recalled 25,000 pounds of food beginning in September and has now added an additional 103,000 pounds to the danger list, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Electa Draper is the health writer for The Denver Post and has covered every news beat in a 22-year journalism career at three newspapers. She has a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's in journalism.